Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta (born January 16, 1966 in New Jersey ) is an American writer.
Life
Dana Spiotta grew up in Los Angeles , dropped out of Columbia University and attended Evergreen State College . She was a dropout and found herself back as an editor for The Quarterly magazine with Gordon Lish . She became a time companion of Don DeLillo .
The novel Lightning Field was featured in the New York Times in 2001 . Her second novel, Eat the Document , was a 2006 National Book Award finalist and won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award .
Spiotta modeled her third novel, Stone Arabia, about an aging rock star, after her stepfather Richard Frasca. The book was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Award . Klaus Ungerer couldn't figure out why the reader should be interested in the tangled story.
Spiotta received a "Rome Prize" from the American Academy in Rome , a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Spiotta teaches the MFA program at Syracuse University . She lives in New York State with her second husband and daughter.
Works
- Lightning Field . New York: Scribner. 2001 ISBN 978-0743212618 .
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Eat the document . New York: Scribner. 2006 ISBN 9780743272988 .
- Eat the document: the perfect disguise . Novel. Translation of Hannes Meyer. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008
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Stone Arabia . New York: Scribner. 2011 ISBN 9781451617962 .
- Glorious Days: Roman . Translation by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann. Berlin: Berlin-Verl., 2014
- Innocents and Others . New York: Scribner, 2016 ISBN 9781501122729 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Dana Spiotta in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Dana Spiotta in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Dana Spiotta at perlentaucher.de
- Dana Spiotta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dana Spiotta , website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mythili G. Rao: Rock 'n Roll Malaise: Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia , Review, in: The Millions, September 22, 2011
- ↑ Tilman Urbach : Shadow Existence , Review, in: NZZ , March 21, 2015, p. 23
- ↑ Klaus Ungerer: I make music for myself. Genius banned: Dana Spiotta's somewhat different artist novel . Review, in: Literary World , February 21, 2015, p. 4
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Spiotta, Dana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Jersey |